District special education approach being revisited
Timothy O'Leary, Reporter
January 15, 2019
The Davenport School District has recently been under scrutiny by the state due to failures in the current special education programs provided. The district has received several audits across 2018, multiple relating to the special education department, namely being out of compliance with disproportio...
GEAR UP Iowa prepares Falcons for the future
Joseph Potts, Reporter
October 24, 2018
Gaining Early Awareness and Readiness Undergraduate Programs, also known as GEAR UP, is a grant awarded to the Iowa College Student Aid Commission that began in the fall of 2014. The grant was about $22 million. West is a part of GEAR UP, a program to help low-income students to prepare for pos...
West High way
Naomi Walker, Co-Media Editor & Business Manager
August 28, 2018
Filed under News
Falcons begin the 2018-2019 school year with an almost all new administration headed by new Principal Cory Williams. New Falcon faces Imagine sitting at home recovering from surgery and getting a text from the Associate Superintendent Rob Scott. Williams was in this exact position when s...
Photographer
While senior and photographer Melissa Rump may be new to the journalism world, her passion for photography has been evident for a while. Starting with the purchase of her iPod when she was in seventh gr...